302nd Division (German Empire)

The 302nd Infantry Division was a major unit of the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of January 28, 1918

• Staff: 26th Cavalry Brigade
  • 8th East Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 45
  • Guard Hunter Battalion
  • Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9
  • 2nd Squadron / Bavarian Reserve Chevauleger Regiment 1
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 201
  • Bavarian Foot Artillery Battalion 14
  • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 65
• Division News Commander # 302
• Bulgarian troops

history

The large formation was originally formed from the Division Command 302 and budgeted in December 1916 as the 302nd Infantry Division. It was used exclusively in the Balkans and disbanded on October 31, 1918 during the withdrawal from Macedonia.

Battle calendar

1916

• from November 28, 1916 - Trench warfare between Lake Ohrid and Dudica in Macedonia

1917

• until September 14th - position battles between Lake Ohrid and Dudica in Macedonia
  • February 12th and 27th - Battle of the Armatus Heights (altitude 1050) in Macedonia
  • 0May 4th to 18th - Mash slaughter in Macedonia
• from September 14th - trench warfare between the upper reaches of the Skumbi and Dudica in Macedonia

1918

• until September 14th - trench warfare between the upper reaches of the Skumbi and Dudica in Macedonia
• September 15 to October 29 - withdrawal fighting in Macedonia and Serbia
• October 31 - Dissolution of the division

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Konrad von Hippel	October 1916 to December 29, 1916
Major general	Hermann von Ziegesar	December 30, 1916 to October 31, 1918

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 77, 174.
• Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918). United States War Office as War Department Document No. 905, Office of the Adjutant, 1920, p. 748.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curt Jany , Hermann Cron: History of the Prussian Army and the German Reichsheeres. Volume 5: History of the German Army in the World War 1914–1918. P. 104.
2. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 163.